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County Monaghan · Ulster

About Knockatallan

Knockatallan, Cnoc an tSalainn in Irish, is a village in County Monaghan, 121 km north-west of Dublin. The map gives it 454 buildings and 3 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 146 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.

Where
121 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.3059° N, 7.1294° W
Governed
Monaghan County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
454 buildings, 3 streets, 6 named places in 16 kinds

County Monaghan since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

200,44245,73265,28818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 146 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Knockatallan; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Saint Joseph's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Knockatallan?
In County Monaghan, in the province of Ulster, 121 km north-west of Dublin and 121 km from Dublin.
How big is Knockatallan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 454 buildings, 3 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 24 settlements this site covers in County Monaghan.
What is there to see in Knockatallan?
146 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Sliabh Beagh Hotel and Tourism Centre, Lough Meenish and Eshmore.
How do you get to Knockatallan?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Cavan Monaghan.
Has County Monaghan grown or shrunk?
The census counted 200,442 people in the county in 1841 and 65,288 in 2022.
454
buildings on the model
3
named streets
6
named places
16
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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